Paper Moon

by Black-Diamonds and Beck
 
 

Chapter 3
What Harry Doesn't Know [Yet]
 

After dinner, Hermione excused herself to the Gryffindor common room. She needed some time
alone, time to think of why the blonde-haired nemesis of Harry Potter had written this note. She
was sure that Draco had always hated her. Draco!? Since when did she refer to Malfoy as Draco??
Would this note be the big joke in Slytherin tonight? Did all of their house rivals know about it?
Darn it. So many questions and no-one to talk about it to.

"Hermione?" She heard Harry's voice whisper from behind her. Startled, she whipped the letter
behind her bag, blushing furiously. Harry's sea-green eyes looked suspiciously into her's. Had he
seen the note? she wondered.

"What?" Hermione replied, affecting a casual manner, which Harry's keen eyes saw through
immediately. He looked at the arm which rested on her knee, the hand hidden, and pointed at it.

"What's in that?" He asked. Hermione's face turned a shade redder, so Harry decided he would
have to find out.

"Nothing to do with you. It's my arithmancy paper." She snapped.

"Can I see?"

She shook her head quickly, then muttered a quick 'Excuse me', before dashing up the girls dorm
stairs. Unknown to Hermione, Harry joined her, wearing his father's invisibility cloak. Hermione
sat on her bed, reading the note over and over. The invisible Harry crept silently up behind her
and peered closely at the letter. As he read, his eyes, invisible as they were, widened considerably.
Written in neat, precise letters, which was like Draco Malfoy, he thought, were the words;
 

Hermione,

Shakespeare's immortal words line the pages of your book.

Romeo and Juliet:

Juliet ~

My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy.

P.S. This doesn't mean I like you Mudblood!!!
 
 

Suddenly Hermione started crying. Loud, unheld sobs that made her shoulders heave with
emotion.

"Oh Draco! Why? Damn it damn it damn it!" Hermione threw the note on to the floor and
buried her face in her pillow. Harry decided now would be an appropriate time to leave.
 
 
 


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